| Justin Timberlake to star in 'I'm.mortal'? Singer Justin Timberlake has been approached to play the lead role in the science fiction film 'I'm.mortal' alongside Amanda... | |
| British Minister for Universities and Science visits IIT in Chennai Leading a delegation of educationists, British Minister for Universities and Science, David Willets, visited the Research Park of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the country's premier engineering academy at Chennai, Tamil... |
| Tonnes of wheat left to rot in Kanpur Hundreds of tonnes of wheat procured by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have been left to rot due to official apathy and lack of storage space at Kanpur, Uttar... |
| Sydney 'dead running' buses equivalent to making 50 trips to the moon Sydney buses run empty for 19.4 million kilometers a year, which is equivalent to making 50 trips to the... |
| CSC Scientific Introduces Glass Sieve Calibration Microspheres.... CSC Scientific, a manufacturer and distributor of particle size analysis products, announces a new sieve calibration system that can revolutionizes how test sieves are specified and evaluated. With... |
| Mental health diagnoses mask the real problems | Dorothy Rowe updated fifth edition will include a range of new diagnoses, is a mythology, not a scientific text. It is created by American psychiatrists who meet in groups to consider whether or not a certain... |
| Missing ship found after 150 years A team of Canadian archaeologists has found a British ship that has been missing in the Arctic for more than 150 years. HMS Investigator left Britain in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert... |
| Feds, farmers create habitats for migrating birds Migratory birds hunt for food on a partially flooded crawfish farm owned by Grantt Guillory near Opelousas, La., on July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/John... |
| Hands-only CPR, pushy dispatchers are lifesavers ATLANTA -- More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions - especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth,... |
| Desperately seeking math and science majors FORTUNE -- Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260... |
| Gillard defunds award wining solar science AN award-winning solar research centre has lost its funding as part of Labor's proposed cuts to finance a "cash-for-clunkers" low-emissions car program, the Greens... |
| Tis the season to be grumpy The research claims this puts them off going to bed, sometimes by several hours, because they don't feel ready. Their sleeping patterns are disrupted even further when they are woken by the sun... |
| British PM's frank talk creates stir Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron inspects a guard of honour during his ceremonial reception at the presidential palace in New Delhi July 29, 2010. (Reuters) NEW DELHI - British Prime Minister... |
| Rains delay Pakistan plane recovery ISLAMABAD - Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer... |
| Arizona's immigration law blocked PHOENIX - A U.S. judge Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control... |
| Heavy rain halts electric car race Heavy rain has interrupted the first ever electric car race on Mount Panorama at Bathurst in central-west New South Wales. Six battery-powered vehicles had been due to clock up as many laps as... |
| StarChild Science Asks, What are the Children Thinking? CARMEL, CA, July 29, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- As a young girl growing up in Canada, science teacher Judy Wilken recalls being hoisted up by her grandfather onto his his shoulders during the spring... |
| Space shuttle workers to lose jobs Jul 29 2010 WalesOnline The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing Nasa’s space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees that they will be laid off in the autumn. ... |
| Ex-RCMP boss loyalists blamed for chaos Former RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli. (QMI Agency file photo) OTTAWA - The family feud at the top of the RCMP is beginning to look more like a feud in the mob families the Mounties... |
| James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror Test During cryogenic testing, the mirrors will be subjected to temperatures dipping to -415 degrees Fahrenheit, permitting engineers to measure in extreme detail how the shape of each mirror changes as... |
| Panel considers cost of space tourism U.S. space tourists hoping to buy a ticket for a suborbital flight could expect to pay between $50,000 and $100,000 by 2014, analysts say. For prices to drop that low, the commercial space tourism... |
| Planets In Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in... |
| Huge satellite to become 'space junk' The European Space Agency is set to become the owner of what could become the most dangerous piece of space debris orbiting the Earth, officials say. The agency will take control of the Envisat... |
| Space walk successful despite lost parts Two Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station have successfully completed a space walk despite losing a tool and a washer, U.S. controllers said. Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko... |
| July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They... |
| Canadian archeologists find lost ship in Arctic OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian archeologists have discovered the wreckage of the ship that has been credited with discovering the fabled Northwest Passage, saying the vessel remains in good condition... |
| BP aims for speedy well closure By Kristen Hays and Pascal Fletcher Houston/Miami - BP may permanently shut the well that caused the worst off-shore oil spill in US history as early as Monday, the company said as speculation... |
| Archaeologists find lost ship in the Arctic By Ka Yan Ng Ottawa - Canadian archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of the ship that has been credited with discovering the fabled Northwest Passage, saying the vessel remains in good... |
| Bloodsucking guests unwelcome in New York New York - In the city that never sleeps there is one increasingly busy nocturnal resident who New York wants to evict - the bedbug. The city announced plans on Wednesday to spend $500 000 raising... |
| UN assembly asserts water rights By Patrick Worsnip New York - The United Nations General Assembly asserted a global right to water and sanitation in a resolution on Wednesday, but more than 40 countries abstained, saying no such... |
| Killer alligator wanted dead or alive Miami - Florida officials have put out the word that an urban alligator who has been eating dogs and other pets and terrorising a neighbourhood is now wanted, dead or alive. Gary Morse of the... |
| Ontario teen's Cuban nightmare ending Teen held in Cuba nearly broke CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Cody LeCompte's tropical island nightmare has finally come to an end. The Simcoe, Ont., teen, his mom Danette, and his uncle, Gary Parmenter, attended... |
| Bear attack victim says relaxing saved her life LONDON, Ont. - A London woman who awoke to a bear chewing on her arm survived by playing dead during the animal's violent late-night rampage through a U.S. campground Tuesday. The remarkably calm... |
| Exhibition Review: ‘Beyond,’ the Solar System at Air and Space Museum “Beyond: Visions of Our Solar System,” the exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, features a photograph of Jupiter’s moon Io, with an 86-mile-high volcanic plume... |
| Tales for your summer science odysseys Quantum fluctuations in space, science and exploration, from the Large Hadron Collider to Hubble, Mars and beyond. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science... |
| 'Oldest' Twitter user dies aged 104 A 104-year-old British woman thought to have been the world's oldest user of Twitter has died, her nursing home said. Ivy Bean, who had about 57,000 followers on the micro-blogging site under the... |
| Sleep Disorder May Signal Dementia, Parkinson's Disease Up to 50 Years Early A new study shows that a sleep disorder may be a sign of dementia or Parkinson's disease up to 50 years before the disorders are... |
| Planets Found in Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however,... |
| An HPV Vaccine Cheap Enough for the Developing World? Could Be Vaccine manufacturers in India and other developing countries may be able to produce a lower-cost HPV vaccine in spite of the complicated array of patent protections on the technology, say... |
| Can't Place That Face? In her "Face Lab" at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Galit Yovel of TAU's Department of Psychology is trying to understand the mechanisms at work in the face area of the brain called the... |
| Dense Bones Linked to Raised Risk for Prostate Cancer Men who develop prostate cancer, especially the more aggressive and dangerous forms that spread throughout the body, tend to retain denser bones as they age than men who stay free of the... |
| Birth of a Hurricane To decipher which storms could bring danger, and which will not, atmospheric scientists are heading to the tropics to observe these systems as they form and dissipate--or develop into hurricanes. By... |
| Women With Gestational Diabetes Have Increased Risk of Recurrence in Subsequent Pregnancies, Study Finds There is an increased risk of recurring gestational diabetes in pregnant women who developed gestational diabetes during their first and second pregnancies, according to a Kaiser Permanente... |
| Teachers Can Close Gender Gap in Classroom Leadership During Medical School, Study Finds Half of U.S. first-year medical students are female, yet a new UCLA study shows that they volunteer for leadership roles in the classroom significantly less than their male counterparts.... |
| Talking Touchscreens Aid Patients Multimedia talking touchscreens, housed in computer kiosks at clinics and hospitals, are helping researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and clinicians at local... |
